Partial splenectomy for symptomatic splenic hamartoma.
Lower pole splenectomy with preservation of residual splenic function was successfully performed in a 3-year-old boy with a symptomatic splenic hamartoma. Following resection, several of the patient's constitutional symptoms resolved. This is the first reported case of a splenic hamartoma treated by partial splenectomy.
Havlik
R J
RJ
Section of Pediatric Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.
Touloukian
R J
RJ
Markowitz
R I
RI
Buckley
P
P
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013156:Splenectomy / Q000379:methods; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*